Just what is in a name? Plenty when it comes to the jewel known as padparadscha. The debate over its use pits those who believe that romantic terms are vital sales aids against others afraid that buyers will be taken advantage of if the padparadscha brush is too broad. But before getting into that, let's look at the root word of our padparadscha.

Today, many narrowly define padparadscha as a Sri Lankan sapphire of delicate pinkish orange color. But the original use of the term was somewhat different. Padparadscha is derived from the Sanskrit/Singhalese padma raga (padma = lotus; raga = color), a color akin to the lotus flower (Nelumbo Nucifera 'Speciosa'). Wojtilla provides the following from a Sanskrit source under his description of ruby:

And if one reads the Western gem literature, we find that padparadscha is sometimes different again, often being used to describe stones that are more Sunkist than anything else. Indeed, what some hold out to be the mother of all pads, the 100.18-ct. stone in the Morgan collection at New York's American Museum of Natural History is, to put it politely, pink-challenged.

I think readers by now are getting the picture - this is one poorly understood word, with no general agreement as to its meaning. Even our word - padparadscha - adopted from a German gem text early in the 20th century - is a corruption. Which should probably make all of us feel good, since the whole process of defining this thing has the word "bastard" written all over it.

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